And we not be worth half a farden.
Loudly old gentlemen still will prate,
As they always do, of past actors;
But we know that poor Mathews' and Howell's fate
Was as bad as a malefactors.
Slowly and sadly we laid it down,
For we knew that we couldn't make bad well,
And we felt that the prestige was vanish'd at last,
But we drank to the health of poor Bradwell.
The Man in the Moon, Volume 1.